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The X.Org, Mesa Plans For Ubuntu 10.10

Phoronix: The X.Org, Mesa Plans For Ubuntu 10.10

The talk at the Ubuntu Developer Summit surrounding the X.Org plans for Ubuntu 10.10 just wrapped up. Compared to the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release, Ubuntu 10.10 should provide a much more recent and up-to-date graphics experience...

I'm curious as to how they'd plan to support ATi hardware if they went ahead with X.Org 1.9, given how long it took for the closed-source driver to support X.Org 1.7. What are they gonna do, pull in a pre-release of fglrx from mid 2011?

I got a little lost with the status of Gallium. Is it going to _only_ be used for R500 in the best case? Does that mean that R600/700 will need to wait to 2011? At least in Ubuntu?

It would be better if they just finished OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.2 with the classic mesa r600 driver (and maybe optimized DRI2 a bit). Then the r600 Gallium3D driver wouldn't be needed so much and could wait a while for gallium to mature.